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Obamas''' first film charts life in US factory under China bosses
Im glad to see Obama doing something useful. I get the drift that maybe Obama may be trying to draw attention to some wrongs that needed to be addressed but weren’t. Better late than never. We need more expose’ writers.
If American managers exploited workers “nationalism” like the Chinese do, yeah we can keep plants open if we wanted to treat American workers this way.
I have seen construction projects in the S.F. bay area financed by China, and built with Chinese labor. The State of California out sourced most of the steel for the San Francisco bay bridge to China**, to save $400 million and some time. I think in todays world under Trump, this isn’t going to fly. Yeah. U.S. labor is higher and so is the cost of freedom. Capitalism has it’s limits.
BTW, I have no idea how many other plants are operated like this one.
* Have you ever noticed how wavy your front windshield in your car is? They never used to be like that until China took over the industry. Cheap visually distorted windshields undercut US windshields which were better but cost more.
** BTW, the union labor stand down begat the Bullet Train boondoggle as a pay off to organized labor to shut up, not picket, and not protest. “We will give you a job your children will retire on!” A.K.A. “A retirement job” in union lexicon - a union job that never ends.
Los Angeles (AFP) - "They refer to us as the foreigners," says a downbeat employee at the Ohio car glass factory where hundreds of Chinese laborers have come to work, far from their wives, children and homeland.
But the worker in question is American, not Chinese, and is finding life very different under new management after billionaire "Chairman Cao" swept into town to reopen the shuttered, iconic former General Motors* factory in 2014.
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The film charts a Midwestern rust belt community's journey from optimism at the giant plant's reopening -- bringing back vital jobs -- toward creeping anger and disillusionment as the Chinese management imposes its strict, exhausting demands on workers and sacks those who don't comply.
Im glad to see Obama doing something useful. I get the drift that maybe Obama may be trying to draw attention to some wrongs that needed to be addressed but weren’t. Better late than never. We need more expose’ writers.
If American managers exploited workers “nationalism” like the Chinese do, yeah we can keep plants open if we wanted to treat American workers this way.
I have seen construction projects in the S.F. bay area financed by China, and built with Chinese labor. The State of California out sourced most of the steel for the San Francisco bay bridge to China**, to save $400 million and some time. I think in todays world under Trump, this isn’t going to fly. Yeah. U.S. labor is higher and so is the cost of freedom. Capitalism has it’s limits.
BTW, I have no idea how many other plants are operated like this one.
* Have you ever noticed how wavy your front windshield in your car is? They never used to be like that until China took over the industry. Cheap visually distorted windshields undercut US windshields which were better but cost more.
** BTW, the union labor stand down begat the Bullet Train boondoggle as a pay off to organized labor to shut up, not picket, and not protest. “We will give you a job your children will retire on!” A.K.A. “A retirement job” in union lexicon - a union job that never ends.